Angels Of The Fallen: Azazel The Watchers By P.T. Macias 2.1.16

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Angels Of The Fallen: Azazel

The Watchers

Copyright 2016 P.T. Macias

Azel (Azazel) and Cryssi (Crystal Ivonne)

Cryssi points at Sam and Azel as all of her color drains from her face. She stares at Azel’s naked body in all of his splendid glory, and her hands shake as she anxiously pushes them through her long hair.

Fuck, he’s beautiful but so sick. What’s wrong with him? Who could hurt him so viciously? He’s bleeding and why is he naked? I can’t stand the pain that I feel. Hell, why do I feel his pain, his wild hunger? I can feel his soul!

Azel’s head bobs side to side in the nook of Sam’s arm as Sam moves to talk to Crystal. Azel listlessly opens his eyelids, his curly black lashes frame beautiful light gray eyes that gaze right into Cryssi’s shocked eyes. The faint silver specks sparkle erratically as he stares at Cryssi. His eyelids feel heavy and close halfway. He watches her intently feeling his tired old soul stir. He gasps for air, forcing his eyes to open.

Hell, she’s mine. I feel her deep in my soul, but I feel her fear and pain. Damn it! She’s broken!

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How to Make Your Characters Believable By Dana Delamar

There are many theories and techniques for building great characters. I like to mix and match from various sources. Here are some of my favorites:

Archetypes: Many characters fall into or are a blend of common archetypes: the Bad Boy, the Warrior, the Seductress, the Waif. Studying these archetypes and their common characteristics can help you figure out who your character is, what sort of decisions they’ll make, and what role they’ll play in your story. A good resource for learning the archetypes is “The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes,” by Tami D. Cowden, Carolyn LaFever, and Sue Viders.

Zodiac signs: Another fun way of figuring out who your characters are is to read up on the various signs of the zodiac and figure out which one best reflects your character. Some great resources are “The Secret Language of Birthdays” and “The Secret Language of Relationships” by Gary Goldschnieder and Joost Elffers. Another popular book is “Sun Signs” by Linda Goodman.

If you’re writing romance, once you’ve chosen zodiac signs for your hero and heroine, you may have fun reading “Sextrology” and “Cosmic Coupling” by Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox. These books go in-depth into the sexuality of the various zodiac signs, and “Cosmic Coupling” gives detailed descriptions of how any two given signs will interact when it comes to sex and relationships.

 Research: Figure out what your character’s profession is, and then research it! What we do for a living heavily influences who we are and our worldview--and vice versa. Learn the details of how your character does their job. You won’t need to put all those details on the page (please don’t!) but giving your readers a sprinkling of the specialized jargon or procedures that your characters use will go a long way toward making them seem real.

If possible, try to meet with experts in your character’s field. For example, if your character is a cop, see if you can interview an officer or go on a ride-along. This will also give you a chance to make friends with an expert who may be willing to vet the details of your book (or answer questions) to make sure you got them right.

People you know: You know plenty of interesting people. Would any of them make great characters? Do they have fascinating or distinctive behaviors, mannerisms, beliefs, or speech patterns that you can give to a character?

Character interviews: Sit down and “interview” your character. What makes them tick? Why do they do the things they do? What matters to them? In a crisis, how will they react? What lengths will they go to if they feel threatened? What’s their favorite book, movie, ice cream flavor? How many times have they been in love--and with whom? And why?

There are a whole bunch of templates on the Internet that have reams of character questions that you can fill out. Aside from establishing your character’s age, height, build, hair color, eye color and other physical characteristics, these templates can help you dig into your characters and learn what’s going on with them.

Some places to start:

http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/106

https://www.autocrit.com/editing/library/four-methods-for-interviewing-characters/

https://patbertram.wordpress.com/character-questionaire/

http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/2008/03/interviewing-your-characters.html

Character diamond: Another technique is to develop a character diamond. There are a couple different ways to do this:

o   The first method is to assign a character two primary characteristics, one quirky or unexpected characteristic, and another that masks their greatest fear or flaw. These form the four points of the diamond. You’re looking for characteristics that don’t change from moment to moment, but rather are stable. Think of traits, not moods. For example, your character’s primary two characteristics might be Loyal and Pessimistic. Their quirky characteristic might be High-Strung, and their mask characteristic might be Aloof (because they’re afraid to get close to anyone).

o   The second method is to focus on how the character’s traits influence the plot. With this method, the four points of the diamond would be: 1) the flaw that masks the character’s greatest fear, 2) the character’s biggest inner fear, 3) the character’s biggest need, and 4) the plan the character devises to achieve that need. This plan of course, doesn’t work as intended!

Some useful resources for developing your own character diamonds:

http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2011/05/04/character-diamonds/

http://aii.lgrace.com/documents/html/character_diamond_generator.php

http://wow.joystiq.com/2008/05/25/all-the-worlds-a-stage-character-diamonds/

Goals, Motivations, and Conflicts (GMC): Understanding what motivates your characters will not only help you create believable characters, it will also help you create a believable plot. What are your character’s goals? Why does your character have these goals (motivation)? What is standing in your character’s way of achieving these goals (conflict)? How do your character’s GMCs intersect with the GMCs of other characters? Which characters will be allies, and which will be foes? A great resource for understanding how to apply GMCs to your characters is “GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict” by Debra Dixon.

Dana Delamar is the author of the "Blood and Honor" romantic suspense series, which is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. An avid traveler who loves to learn about different peoples and cultures, Dana often sets her books in exotic locales. She grew up in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, and today makes Seattle her home. She's an omnivorous reader with overflowing bookshelves and a passionate love of "Supernatural," "Firefly," "True Blood," "Mad Men," and a zillion other TV shows. Where she finds the time to sleep is a mystery.

When she's not writing, Dana is zipping off to visit new locales, dreaming about her next trip to Italy, or narrowly avoiding car accidents while she conjures up exploits for her characters. You can visit her at http://www.danadelamar.com.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Getting Published By Dana Delamar

  A Funny Thing Happened 

on the Way to Getting Published

      Why Choosing Your Setting Is Important

My current series, Blood and Honor, is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. Why did I choose that setting, and that Mafia group? It wasn’t a mere whim; the country and the group were both deliberate choices.

First off, I chose Italy because it’s one of my favorite places in the world. I’ve been there twice, and I can’t wait to go again. I love the culture, the people, the food, the language. I’ve always been fascinated by the ancient Romans and the Italian artists and thinkers of the Renaissance. These are the people who literally changed the world and forged so much of what it is today. And talk about one of the most beautiful places on earth! Where better to set a romance than in a place that practically screams it?

Most importantly, Italy is a place that speaks to me, that fires off dreams in me, yearnings, emotions. It’s a place that sparks my imagination. You could say it’s my favorite playground.

My choice of the Calabrian Mafia (the ’Ndrangheta) was likewise deliberate. Everyone has heard of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. With the release of the book and film, “Gomorrah,” many have heard of the Camorra, the Neopolitan Mafia. But few have heard of the ’Ndrangheta, despite their being the most powerful and widespread Mafia syndicate in the world today. They operate quite differently than the other Mafias, and they’ve been enormously successful while maintaining a very low profile. Even in Italy, not everyone is as aware of them as they should be. They’ve infiltrated every level of Italian society, and they’re making inroads throughout Europe, Canada, Australia, South America, and even parts of the United States. The economic instability of the last few years has only broadened their reach. You can see this too, in Mexico and South America, where drug cartels have taken over huge swaths of territory. We are rapidly entering a world where criminal syndicates are running the show… and where traditional governments are struggling to assert and maintain control.

When I started researching the ’Ndrangheta, I was fascinated by how they operated and how successful and adaptable they’ve been. Choosing a Mafia group that wasn’t well-known and didn’t work exactly like Cosa Nostra or other better-known groups gave me plenty of fertile ground to develop plots and characters. It also gave me a new world to introduce to my readers. 

At one point, when I was pitching this series to agents and editors, an editor from a Big 6 publisher was interested, but she asked if I could switch the setting and story to focus on the Chicago Mob. I had to decline. Changing the setting, in terms of country and syndicate, would dramatically and radically change the story. Italians, and members of the ’Ndrangheta, don’t think the same way American-born members of the Chicago Mob do. Another factor was that Kate, the American heroine of my first book, REVENGE, is isolated in Italy. Her family is thousands of miles away, and she soon realizes that the husband who swept her off her feet isn’t who she thought he was. She has no one she can trust, nowhere to turn. If she’d been in the United States, the hurdles she would have faced would have been much smaller, and she would have been far less likely to entrust her fate to the man she ends up choosing in REVENGE--a rival Mafia don.

Setting and story go hand in hand. One influences the other. The setting is the cauldron in which a story brews… and it’s integral to the magic that brings the story to life in readers’ minds.

Dana Delamar is the author of the "Blood and Honor" romantic suspense series, which is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. An avid traveler who loves to learn about different peoples and cultures, Dana often sets her books in exotic locales. She grew up in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, and today makes Seattle her home. She's an omnivorous reader with overflowing bookshelves and a passionate love of "Supernatural," "Firefly," "True Blood," "Mad Men," and a zillion other TV shows. Where she finds the time to sleep is a mystery.

When she's not writing, Dana is zipping off to visit new locales, dreaming about her next trip to Italy, or narrowly avoiding car accidents while she conjures up exploits for her characters. You can visit her at http://www.danadelamar.com.

Author Links:

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How to Find a Critique Buddy Dana Delamar

A critique partner, or critique group, is an essential part of taking your writing to a publishable level. Critique partners provide honest, constructive feedback on your work. They also help you develop your characters and your plot. They help you spot when either one has gone off the rails, and they help you get back on track.

Critique partners can also help you improve your writing chops, whether in terms of point of view, pacing, style, and so on. They’re essential sounding boards to any writer, and they can save you a bundle by helping you polish your work as much as possible prior to hiring a professional editor.

So how do you find this mythical person or group?

·         Take classes at your local college, local writers’ groups, or local writers’ conferences. The Internet will help you find many of these groups. Meetup.com is one place where you can find hundreds of writers’ groups in your area.

·         Try to find local writers who write in your genre. While feedback from any writer will probably be helpful, the best feedback is likely to come from someone writing in the same genre. For example, if you’re writing romance, another romance writer will understand that a Happily Ever After (HEA) ending is mandatory.

·         To find writers in your genre, you can look for writers’ organizations on the Internet. For romance, Romance Writers of America (RWA) is a key resource, with local chapters all around the United States. Other genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, and so on, also have writers’ organizations.

·         Once you’ve found your tribe, be sure to attend meetings and get to know your fellow writers. Make friends. At some point, you’ll find someone you click with, and that someone might be a good match for you in terms of a critique partner. Or they might know someone who is.

·         Preferably, your critique partner will be at a similar place and skill level in their career. If you choose someone who’s an experienced pro while you’re an unpublished newbie, the relationship may end up becoming more of a mentor/mentee kind of relationship, rather that one of equal partners. That may not be a bad thing, but such relationships can end up with an unbalanced power dynamic, or the mentor may feel that they are not getting as much out of the relationship as the mentee.

·         Preferably your critique partner will be writing in the same subgenre(s) as you and preferably you will both have similar preferences when it comes to the heat level of your stories. For example, if you’re writing erotic romance, you will want someone who’s very comfortable with sexuality to be giving you feedback.

·         Preferably your critique partner will have a complementary skill set to yours. Maybe one of you is great at developing characters, and the other has top-notch grammatical skills. You can take advantage of each other’s strengths and learn from each other.

·         Above all, your critique partner must be someone who is constructive, supportive, helpful, and not afraid to give and receive honest and candid feedback. Both of you must be open to other opinions, but at the same time not offended if the feedback doesn’t resonate with one or the other of you. And remember to point out what’s working great, as well what needs work. We all need a pat on the back sometimes… especially when we still haven’t got things quite right!

·         Trust is the key ingredient in the critique partner relationship. While you may be able to develop this with someone you know only online, it’s much easier to develop this kind of relationship with a local writer you can meet with on a frequent basis. Being able to read each other’s nonverbal cues and discuss sometimes sensitive or difficult issues face to face is vital to building the level of trust and support that makes a critique partnership so invaluable.

 Dana Delamar is the author of the "Blood and Honor" romantic suspense series, which is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. An avid traveler who loves to learn about different peoples and cultures, Dana often sets her books in exotic locales. She grew up in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, and today makes Seattle her home. She's an omnivorous reader with overflowing bookshelves and a passionate love of "Supernatural," "Firefly," "True Blood," "Mad Men," and a zillion other TV shows. Where she finds the time to sleep is a mystery.

When she's not writing, Dana is zipping off to visit new locales, dreaming about her next trip to Italy, or narrowly avoiding car accidents while she conjures up exploits for her characters. You can visit her at http://www.danadelamar.com.

Author Links:

Website: http://www.danadelamar.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaDelamarWriter

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanaDelamar

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/DanaDelamar

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danadelamar/

Dana Delamar is the author of the "Blood and Honor" romantic suspense series, which is set in Italy among the Calabrian Mafia. An avid traveler who loves to learn about different peoples and cultures, Dana often sets her books in exotic locales. She grew up in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, and today makes Seattle her home. She's an omnivorous reader with overflowing bookshelves and a passionate love of "Supernatural," "Firefly," "True Blood," "Mad Men," and a zillion other TV shows. Where she finds the time to sleep is a mystery. When she's not writing, Dana is zipping off to visit new locales, dreaming about her next trip to Italy, or narrowly avoiding car accidents while she conjures up exploits for her characters. You can visit her at http://www.danadelamar.com. Author Links: Website: http://www.danadelamar.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaDelamarWriter Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanaDelamar Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/DanaDelamar Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danadelamar/

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Bulldog, Razer 8 By P.T. Macias

Bulldog is the youngest of the Razer 8 Delta Force Operatives. He enjoys life. He’s called upon to help out one of his team operative. Infinity is there.

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He runs into Katherine Morgan, a sweet young victim. In the the process of extraction he gets caught by the prostitution gang. They mistake him with being her boyfriend.

Bulldog grabs onto that line and poses as her boyfriend. In the process of rescuing Katherine from the mob he becomes entangled in her web. Will Bulldog’s skills and training save him from falling under her spell? Will he be able to outrun the mob and his soul?

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Bulldog glares at Katherine, frustrated. Damn, this beauty is terrified. She’s trembling and her lovely huge soft hazel eyes are full of tears. Damn it all to hell! I hate seeing women cry, thinks Travis.

He starts to see her, forgetting his frustration and the urgency to escape. He gazes into her eyes.

Katherine gazes into Bulldog’s beautiful green eyes, holding back her scream. He’s soul is pure, I can feel it. I see the honest compassion and admiration. He’s not one of them? Wow, his soul is so vibrant. I feel his soul converging into mine, into one, ponders Katherine. She blinks back her tears and unconsciously holds tightly onto his hand.

Oh, yeah, this sweet young girl’s soul is incredible. I feel her soul reaching deeply, touching my very core, and firmly embedding into my soul. Wow, she’s so beautiful. I love her sweet red lips and her long golden brown hair. Her hair looks soft and shiny, muses Travis, in a daze.

“Infinity extraction complete. Disperse and status,” requests Redfox, into the mic.

Bulldog snaps back to reality. Damn! I need to get her out of out of this hell hole, thinks Bulldog.

“It’s okay Sugar. I’m getting you out of this hell hole,” says Travis, solemnly. “We need to get going. Will you follow me?”

Katherine blinks, registering what he said. “You’re here to rescue me?” she asks. She starts to smile, a bright smile lighting up her entire face. Her beautiful hazel eyes glow. “Okay, I’ll follow you.”

Oh, wow, he’s such a hunk. He looks like a bad boy but he’s not. I love his dirty blond hair and green eyes.

“Wonderful, Sugar,” replies Travis. He nods and takes her hand. They walk out of the room, he switches off the light, and they walk up the stairway.

“Extracting,” says Bulldog into the mic. He takes two steps up the stairs, pulling Katherine along. The stairway area is pitch black.

Katherine can’t see in front of her and is relying on Travis to go up the stairway, holding tightly onto his hand. I wonder who he’s talking to, she ponders.

Bulldog reaches the top of the stairway and attempts to push the door open. Damn it all to hell! They closed the door. I need to see if I can locate a latch, muses Bulldog.

Katherine runs into him and wraps her arms around his waist trying not to fall down the stairs. She’s balanced on the narrow step, holding onto him.

Bulldog is thrown off balance; he quickly wraps his arms around Katherine. They roll down the stairs to the bottom of the basement. The mic breaks off, bounces down the stairs, and rolls into a cranny in the concrete floor. 

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